And of course as we would be the single celled amoeba, the earth would be flat and the center of the universe with a varied or determined cosmic muffin or hairy thunderer having complete responsibility for our every thought and move once we were magically created from mud and animated by his or her gas.

Wells is a thunderer, and if you're going to make that work, the audience needs to buy in to your story of injustice and outrage, and must find your American Idol power crescendos compelling and perfectly tuneful.

Unwearying flows the sweet sound from their lips, and the house of their father Zeus the loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses as it spread abroad, and the peaks of snowy Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals.